Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction [electronic resource] /
Huang, B.author.
This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Generic sui generis : on Asian American immigrant fiction -- Recriminations : on Asian American crime fiction -- Reorientations : on Asian American science fiction.
This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Literature   .
America—Literatures.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
North American Literature.